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"Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent.
He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason - and how, in playing these dramatically different roles, it was crucial to the emergence of the modern nation."--BOOK JACKET.
"Throughout, Prakash draws on major and minor figures on both sides of the colonial divide, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, the nationalist historian and novelist Romesh Chunder Dutt, Prafulla Chandra Ray (author of A History of Hindu Chemistry), Rudyard Kipling, Lord Dalhousie, and John Stuart Mill."--BOOK JACKET.
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Civilization, History, Politics and government, Science, India, politics and government, 1765-1947, India, civilization, Science, india, India, politics and government, 1947-, Postcolonialism, India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947, Imagination, India, intellectual lifePlaces
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Another reason: science and the imagination of modern India
2000, Oxford University Press
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Another reason: science and the imagination of modern India
1999, Princeton University Press
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Another Reason
August 16, 1999, Princeton University Press
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Another Reason
August 9, 1999, Princeton University Press
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"THE EMERGENCE and existence of India is inseparable from the authority of science and its functioning as the name for freedom and enlightenment, power and progress."
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